East Missoula

A subdivision planned for East Missoula and a request for annexation into the city won approval from the Missoula City Council on Monday night, setting the stage for Phase 1 to break ground next year.

Several development proposals made their City Council debut on Wednesday, including the rezoning of a parcel on Brooks Street and another related to a subdivision planned in East Missoula.

Andrea Phillip writes, "I am sick of seeing projects proposed by out of state developers who only want to benefit financially from our housing desperation at the cost of our community, city and state."

Plans to improve the Highway 200 corridor through East Missoula have been long in the making but funding announced on Tuesday will move the project forward.

Now that Marshall Mountain is poised to become the newest park with year-round programming and the crowds that come with it, residents of East Missoula are concerned that traffic impacts in their community have been overlooked.

Transportation officials in Missoula will apply for a federal grant this year in hopes of landing funding to construct a number of roadway improvements in East Missoula.